Website: http://www.faithmaps.org/pomophillinks.htm Recommended by Earl Creps. (Posted 10/19/2001)
Website: Global Pastors Network. This website, the result of a consortium of several
national church and parachurch ministries, is committed to the 24/7 development of leaders on a worldwide scale. The intent is to use this platform as a training tool for raising up church
leaders for a significant harvest in the first decade of the new millennium. The sight was launched at the Beyond All Limits conference held in Orlando, FL in January. It was an awesome
conference and so is the web site. AGTS is proud to be a partner in this initiative. Recommended by Randy Walls. (Posted
2/6/02)
Website: Empower, Selected articles and
resources on Assemblies of God Online that will help you in your local church. Recommended
by Earl Creps (Posted 10/19/2001)
PDF Article: Creps, Earl. "The
Cable Church: Using Public Access to Reach Your Community," Ministries Today, July/August 1991 (Posted 10/19/2001)
Abstract: Sometimes the right answer is right in front of your face—in your television screen. Media ministry is usually thought of as an extremely expensive undertaking reserved
only for megachurches. The truth is that most communities routinely make public access cable TV available to non-profit organizations. This can be a powerful outreach tool for churches
large and small. You just have to use it.
PDF Article: _____. "Confessions of a Church Hopper," Advance,
August 1993 (Posted 10/19/2001)
Abstract: During one of those times "in between" pastorates, my wife and I had many Sundays off. We used this time to visit lots of congregations. After years of pouring
our lives into others we needed a season to be replenished ourselves. In the course of our travels we got back in touch with how it feels to be an outsider to the church experience. This
articles passes along those learnings. Losing contact with the newcomer's perspective is fatal to church ministry.
PDF Article: _____. "Confessions of a Professional Interviewer,"
(Posted 10/19/2001)
Abstract: During a time of transition I became a "pro" at interviewing for church transitions. How? By going through at least part of the pastoral selection process at
over a dozen churches in less than two years. These experiences taught me some lessons about what the interviewing process means and how it can assist a candidate in determining the degree
of "fit" with a new pastoral position.
PDF Article: _____. Interview with Brian McLaren, August 7, 2001, Kansas
City, Missouri (Posted 11/16/2001)
PDF Article: _____. "Leading the High Turn-over Small Church," Leadership,
Spring 1993 (Posted 10/19/2001)
Abstract: During the 1980s I pastored a church in coastal Maine that was highly transient. This drove me crazy. My efforts never seemed to add up to anything. I lived at square
one. This article reflects on that experience, points to the significant positive features of an transient congregation, and offers suggestions for maximizing the potential of this very
common and very important type of church.
PDF Article: _____. "Without People
My Visions Perish," Advance, January, 1995, pp.12-13 (Posted 10/19/2001)
Abstract: Ministry failure has taught me more than success ever has. During my early years of pastoring I learned a lot of hard lessons, many of them by scheduling activities that
no one attended Without people my visions perished! But in every case the learning that took place was well worth it. This 1995 article summarizes three of my most significant learnings.
I believe they apply to pastoral work everywhere.
PDF Article: _____. "Why Can't Preachers and Psychologists Get Along?"
(Posted 10/19/2001)
Abstract: The validity of Christian Psychology became a hotly contested issue in the 1980s. While these tensions have abated somewhat, an underlying disconnect between the pulpit
and the therapy room remains in the church. This article explores why Preachers and Psychologists don't always get along, and how a new cooperative relationship between the pulpit and
the behavioral sciences could be developed.
Article: Harrison, Paul V. "Pastoral Turnover and the Call to Preach," Journal of the
Evangelical Theological Society 44:1 (March 2001):87-105."Strongly recommended reading for all seminary students, preachers, pastors, church members, and church officials, etc.,"
says Ben Aker. (Posted 10/19/2001)
PowerPoint Presentation:Klaus, Byron. "Preaching
for Response," (small PowerPoint file, 150 K) presented at the Pentecostal Preachers Week, James River AG, Springfield, Mo., March 12, 2002. If you don't have Microsoft PowerPoint
you can download the PDF version (1.96 MB) or the zipped
PDF version (596 K). (Posted 3/12/02)
PDF Article: Lim,
Steve."Overcoming the Superman Syndrome: Meeting needs while ignoring our own." Originally Published
in Evangel, April 2002. (Posted 8/20/02)
PDF Article: _______. "United We Decide—4 ways to
energize the process of making a decision. I Romans 15:1-7," From in Building Church Leaders, published by Leadership Journal (Posted 1/23/2002)
